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The Grey Pilgrim
Lorien
Oct 15 2014, 4:33pm
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Four years ago today, The Hobbit got the "Green light"
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http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/10/15/39119-the-hobbit-finally-gets-the-green-light/
"It's been four years to the day"
Starting to get emotional! Insane how far we've come and now that I've remembered the date all these posters going out today seem rather fitting
Cheers!
(This post was edited by The Grey Pilgrim on Oct 15 2014, 4:33pm)
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Mr. Arkenstone (isaac)
Tol Eressea
Oct 15 2014, 4:36pm
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TORNīs FB page is getting weird, could this mean?
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That the trailer is coming REALLY soon? or a new videoblog?
They have putted an emotional weird, without reason post about 15 minutes ago
The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true
Survivor to the battle for the fifth trailer
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The Grey Pilgrim
Lorien
Oct 15 2014, 4:38pm
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That's what I've been thinking...
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The deletion of the Bilbo poster, the sudden emotional outpour, the floodgates opening on posters/banners. It HAS to be soon!
Fingers crossed!
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Farficom
Rivendell
Oct 15 2014, 4:54pm
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And I think we shall see exactly what that is very soon.
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Avandel
Half-elven
Oct 15 2014, 5:43pm
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Lovely that you marked THIS day - and the world would change
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I've been thinking back a lot! What a journey for the fans, for PJ & co., and the actors - just love it was all to share in the Appendices
It's all been so very special.. And I'll never forget the scene of AUJ and my first sight of Bilbo enjoying the sun, the iconic Gandalf saying the iconic "what do you mean" line - I still smile, every time. And the world falls away and I am in Middle Earth!
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haarp
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Oct 15 2014, 5:43pm
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4 years ago i was excited, now i realize PJ ruined the films. i want my 4 years back
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Avandel
Half-elven
Oct 15 2014, 5:57pm
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I want a super extra deluxe version of these films...
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as in EXTRA long, in fact I think PJ should do more pickups so we can have more footage. I don't want it to end.....
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dormouse
Half-elven
Oct 15 2014, 6:27pm
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In that order! 
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dormouse
Half-elven
Oct 15 2014, 6:28pm
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Oh my goodness, the never-lit green light....
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I remember it well! Such a long journey it's been, and for Peter Jackson and co most of all.
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Avandel
Half-elven
Oct 15 2014, 6:46pm
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I still watch the AUJ trailers now and again
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It just evokes the feeling, a bit, of seeing it all for the first time, hearing Gandalf whimsically naming all the dwarves, hearing the first of the song, hearing Bilbo cry "I'm going on an adventure!", hearing Thorin's magnificent voice-over "I would take each and every one of these dwarves over the mightiest army. Loyalty. Honor. A willing heart - I can ask no more than that."
*Sigh*
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DanielLB
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Oct 15 2014, 8:43pm
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This brought back memories of the green-light thread, which you started, dormouse. I was a lurker then. It is fun to re-read it. 
All the excitement (and uncertainty)!
What a fun-filled 4 years it has been since then. It is sad it is almost over.
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NoelGallagher
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Oct 15 2014, 9:07pm
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4 years ago i was excited, now i realize PJ ruined the films. i want my 4 years back
He didnt ruin them,he made his own version of it.
Some things may worth discussing but at the end of the day he produced some really enjoyable stuff and, which is even more important, brought us back to Middle-Earth. I am very grateful for that and wont think about this all comes to an end...
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dormouse
Half-elven
Oct 15 2014, 10:21pm
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Hard to imagine you ever being a lurker Daniel.... ;-)
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You seem to be part of the fabric (I think the avatar has something to do with that! )
And yes, it is sad. But we will still have the EE to look forward to...
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Eruonen
Half-elven
Oct 15 2014, 11:25pm
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It was a long and winding road.
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Hopefully, we will see some more adaptations in the not too distant future (well, at least in my lifetime)...I know, a fools hope....The Children of Hurin would make for a terrific dark and in some ways very different Middle Earth film...gritty, gloomy, heroic and tragic.
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mae govannen
Tol Eressea
Oct 16 2014, 1:28pm
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I'm with you full-heartedly... //
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'Is everything sad going to come untrue?'
(Sam, 'The Field of Cormallen', in 'The Return of the King'.)
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mae govannen
Tol Eressea
Oct 16 2014, 1:30pm
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'Is everything sad going to come untrue?'
(Sam, 'The Field of Cormallen', in 'The Return of the King'.)
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mae govannen
Tol Eressea
Oct 16 2014, 1:38pm
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Beautiful way of putting it... Right on.//
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'Is everything sad going to come untrue?'
(Sam, 'The Field of Cormallen', in 'The Return of the King'.)
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mae govannen
Tol Eressea
Oct 16 2014, 1:49pm
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Well, for me it has been just the opposite!...
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Sorry for you, but I on the contrary am so grateful and happy!... What a boon those films have been, and I'm so glad there is still the last one coming, and then its EE too later...
'Is everything sad going to come untrue?'
(Sam, 'The Field of Cormallen', in 'The Return of the King'.)
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Avandel
Half-elven
Oct 16 2014, 3:03pm
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Oh, yes! And there is always hope
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Perhaps for a complete re-edit "director's cut" of all three movies, since it sounds as tho PJ always did multiple shootings for a scene. LOL re CGI maybe they could do an "unrated" version that actually has some blood in it (a little) once in a while. Just a little tho, for "realism".
But more importantly, has as much footage as possible - no point in letting all those little details that didn't make it into a film so far just sit around.
And perhaps del Toro would somehow take the torch for an ME film - depending on where the rights issues are, and what they are. 
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KingTurgon
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Oct 16 2014, 3:56pm
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That PJ does what George Lucas did and edits LOTR after he finished The Hobbit. Nothing major, but something like showing Thranduil at The Last Alliance, deleted scenes like Gil-galad's (my favorite Tolkien character) death or the invasion of Lothlorien in FOTR, or a brief scene of Dain fighting the Easterlings in ROTK. I think it could make the franchise as a whole richer.
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mae govannen
Tol Eressea
Oct 17 2014, 4:57am
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'Is everything sad going to come untrue?'
(Sam, 'The Field of Cormallen', in 'The Return of the King'.)
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Lurker in the Mirk
Valinor
Oct 17 2014, 1:06pm
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Hats off to denizens on the board who've been here from the beginning. I can only imagine the roller-coaster thrill of living through the lit-not-lit era, and the drama after that of the director-change, the casting, and the stuff during, and even after filming has wrapped and through the post shoot follow-ups, PR and release. I stayed away deliberately until I could no longer resist the lure, but I have also missed out on being a part of the experience obviously. You have something special for sure.
"I'll say dark and gritty, which, with the Elvenking, translates as Hot and Sexy. " - vanima ephel
I fancy myself an ME BFF (Book/Film Fan)
Thranduil Appreciation
Tis true: more appreciation threads for Thranduil exist than ME movies. Threadcount: XVIII
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 Thrall Wars!: What business do Elves, Dwarves or Men(?) have with drooling thralls, yea, with smartphones in tow, unto the slopes of Erebor? ... oh, yes, the Hobbit's lingering in some shadows, ever ready to swoop to the hairy rescue. Take cover if you dare! Teh partsies: Prologue (aka the 'tater-mash of whatever came before), two, three, three-appendix: An Unexpected Flashback, four, five (new, posted 20 August)
"BoFA"= The Battle || "BotFA"/"tBotFA" = The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
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mae govannen
Tol Eressea
Oct 17 2014, 3:18pm
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to see Del Toro's M-e, I really like PJ's... but otherwise I share your hopes absolutely!...
'Is everything sad going to come untrue?'
(Sam, 'The Field of Cormallen', in 'The Return of the King'.)
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mae govannen
Tol Eressea
Oct 17 2014, 3:53pm
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Nice of you to say that... And
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do not even try to imagine what it has been to be part of the huge circus of the LOTR films!!! Now they are obvious, and celbrated and honored by most, but I can tell you at the beginning it was a complete uproar: to give so much money to this practically unknown film-maker, so that he can make the three huge movies at once without even waiting for the feedback to the first!!! It was seen as a completely insane move. And all the fans everywhere waited for each film with utmost caution and suspicion and anticipated reaction to the slightest rumor...!!! To me, the state of these Boards for the Hobbit Trilogy has been more or less a mere repeat of all the fury and outcry and controversy that the first Trilogy has seen too in its own time...! The new-byes have no idea, but the LOTR old timers like me will all testify that what I say is true..., This is why one can laugh... and enjoy the repeat to the full, without a real disturbance this time around over the superficial stuff.
I'll just be so glad to have now these six great movies instead of only the last three of the set...
I PJ, and I .JRRT, who gave me those books, and now those films... and all those friends on TORn too!
'Is everything sad going to come untrue?'
(Sam, 'The Field of Cormallen', in 'The Return of the King'.)
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Avandel
Half-elven
Oct 17 2014, 4:22pm
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That is why I like to read the oldest posts that Magpie suggested
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One of the stories I like the best that I saw on TV, because I like the occasional story when a businessman isn't stupid, is when the lead studio exec - Ted Turner? being shown the first footage of LOTR by PJ and knowing, right then, he had a major hit on his hands (as opposed to the famous POTC story of Disney fussing over Jack Sparrow's portrayal LOL but at least they apologized...)
I've missed much - but that's why I like the moment in the Appendices seeing the fans chanting "Hobbit, Hobbit..."
'Coz I do feel it's the fans had a huge role in making the Hobbit happen, so I do feel grateful to all those who raised their voices early on. And even better, the folks who were there through it all are willing to share what it was like.
Perhaps one day those same voices, like water wearing down a stone, will help soften the stance of the Tolkien estate?
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